It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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